LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 92, 7 April 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The sum of CI2W has been granted for the building of Hie Hawera Technical School. .Mr. Newton King has received the following cable from his Sydney agents re hide:—"All weights tinner." A sudden death occurred on the train from ilawera to Wanganui on Saturday morning. When the train was at Waitolara a Maori .suddenly fell to the iluor dead. The t'.S.A. Government appropriations for the current year include an item of tMWIII. to be used as bribes to thieves to betray Hie perpetrators of post oflice robberies. The "top" price recorded for oats a Gore'paper), is 2s 'ad a bushel, pail lo a Wyuilham farmer recently for a choice line of Cartons. M. Charles Barenz, a Belgian sportsman, has ma.de a tel to travel from Antwerp lo New 1 ork an.! back in a sailing canoe. He will travel alone, and hopes to reach America in six week-. lie will start next month. I'nlike Wellington (-ay- a Diinedin corii-pou.lenl) no exorbitant hou-e rents are charged in the southern i-ilv. The conditions prevailing' are jiisi 'at ihe normal standard, rents being al the rale Mormon agents have purchased IWi aires ol land within live miles of Hastings. fo r the purpose of establishing a farm for the training of young Maoris in general agriculture and fruit-growing pursuits and making theui useful members of the community. The Government lias decided to in-erea.-c the amount of capitation paid to Education Hoards lor instruction gi\eii in agriculture by travelling instructors. The Taraliaki Education Hoard works under this system, with Mr. Ji. MeK. Morison as instructor. With characteristic suddenness, Tannaki's winter arrived yesterday. the cjiill in the tempestuous mountain win.! was sullicient indication of the fact that old EgurOnl lias donned his vvinlrv mantle of white. Altogether it wa-s "one of those days, that make the fireside very tenacious.

A special meeting „f the director* "I tlic Aloa Dairy Co. w is held on Saturday to consider petitions received from shareholders, the Record rpporu. ,\lr. Ifcrlihy explained the object of the meeting and asked for opinions, and after a few remarks ilv Stackursk'i moved, "That an extraordinary meeting of shareholders be called for Saturday, the KSU lust, in the Parish Hall, at' 12.30 o'clock, for the purpose of the directors explaining rca.-ons for dispensing w ith the services of the creamery manager at lvanuatfi, and to transact any "other business that may legally be brought before it." °

Many are the devices employed to 'leak (he tedium of the voyage on I omeward-bound ships, but the one «''»" l to k. related here is probably quite, outside the run of the usual compctMvc cents. A passenger bv a bleanier uJm.li recently left these shores »-as struck by the workmanlike manner »< "Inch a baby o„ board disposed » thr contents of its liotllr. .and the Kle.i occurred t„ him to get up a match. S'veral grown-up male passenger, enti'ied the Ji-|s, and at Ihe baby's -iii-po..,t.-.l _ „„, ; ,| time were supplied with lecding-.iottie- jilied , v j M , claret and «'"••'■■ Tl«- man «l„, arranged |].e "cut went nap „„ ( |, ( , |, a , .„„, ~, [■« i »,,„ „,.„ unplaced, ,„,- U ,e '"" """ lM '; 1 "' l '" 1 "'' lii'i'hed bv the ""' ', ,l]j " 1 " »<■'■'■• iihuut half-way

"■»'»'» Hi>i«tn.l<f!l by tIK- fact that l.'ii KiU],|, von iiohleii-llajljach. the hii.-l.amt of U„. , vor i irs tt .,. al | luVs| »'«" 'l>'lha KlU|.|,) |, ;l , |„,,„ ,„,'.,., '"! (» !!,.■ ~„|,„„-s U , ,„„,,,,..„ ,j, „.,.,., . "■'."»"; i" M of eavalrv. i„ "•ln.-l, lir i„ni,erlv ~v,,l :i , ~ ,„.j\ :ltl . I I'll- M l!ol||,.„-ll:,| .|,. „•],„ a-.mnr.i lII,' lll;lll;l-..|il(.ul ~;' ll„. Kn,|,|, v.-t.!-l. - : ,'l | J-.-~.-n aft,-,- hi, inarriap.. will | Km . („ 1.-ave In, r,.s],oiisil,l<. u , ui( .. and |,n,,, Tl [ I" I wli.-iv | u - s r,. u i, mMll is j„ Sai-riM.li. Tlu, Kviij,|, household will l,e moved to Potsdam during the period of "HiWiiiT drill. ~, (l, t . devoted u.uu" eoupje. win, iiiadp a | OVC match, reus" to he |iart(.,|. Ilorr vou Jtohlcii-lliillni,-!, and ins wife have taken Mini, L . ]'aaee, overlook,,,;; one of th ( . piilurc,i|uc J li'kes near Potsdam.

I ■■ '".ii luiMiam. Deep regret will be felt at the filial termination of Saturday light's accident 111 Palmerston North, Miss Martha doiics, of this town, having succumbed to her it,j„ric, yesterday afternoon. It iij.p.-fir.s, iron, later details, Unit a wild and inexplicable stampede of cabs „nd other vehicles occurred at the railway station on the arrival of the evening train from Wellington. ,\|f, s ,r olle , wasuguol of Mr. 1.. <:. West, 0 f Var nierston. on her way back from Wellii,.ton.to Now I'l.Vinonth. had gone to the Nation l« meet. , friend and was stand|m.?«ear heliekef office steps when -lie wa.s knocked down bv one of (he ,-,bs She was carried |„ n hotel, a „• wii-' son seenred after which shewn lil!; ,.„ to the lio.sj.ilnl. ner iniuries i, eluded broke,, ribs ..„ hod, si!l( ,s-. ,„„. I( , t mg the lungs, ~s W( .|| ~ S ,, V( , |V s|iwl . The body is being brought ( u \ T c«- plvmonth

TIIK ONLY RKPAIIAT.i, \ ' •, WOliUl. | TIIO "MdoUo" is ill,. „„i V .■..;,.!,; .. j tnnili' witli cii:iin<'ll.'<l l«,\vl' casino m-.. mill.- :,nil cream nuilcls. of ( . f ,n rri ;? ( y' lienuliful liar,] . r ! im . ( ] flnUli on ih.j j, iM -h 1 1.-at mm/- in ,-o„i.„-i ~..;.|, (hl , „„•!,. |ll||fil a;ive tlio '•.\rc'.,il,." an i.iiMifTisr nilv.mta«p. nviT oili.-r -Limniiiir, i„ [lie mutter of clem-lims-.. Tin- ,li;V, r-iuc l,etivi.,.ri llw ciwincHcl lio-.vl of 11 \MpIo( .V and 'oilier jjjjh liiii.i )< ,-,.< ~:- '),,.(„'.,,,,,' a cliinn t.M-onp ami a I in ratmikbi \\-,, also claim that Hip ''Mi'lotl,.-' U (;,„ "a-ip-l =i'p:iralor to )urn. Tiul's li, . ■ "' -r- ii ii nin.li' on an rnlircly rliirprtii! I ;=i-in.-1j.T... \\> i-oul.l c\}>l,iijt liiis fo voii !.. A. Xolan ami Co. (Lite Wilson kii<J Nuian), ajenU. X, ■ J'h-uioutfc. '

Tlw itiiioimt of tlio Tariinaki county liridgc loan expended during the year was approximately ,C 38511. The election for the vacancy on Lhi* I'iirauaki Land Hoard resulted as follows:—J. 15. Cuimett 1.>3, Win. Kennedy l.'l'J, John Sheehy 73, Fred. Mills 37 "Combination!" "Hank trust:'' "Ji l '- noptdy!"—A few of (he ejaculations at the County Council table yesterday when the letter Irom the. bank notifying the advance from .)'/:, to (i per cent, in the | rale of interest on overdraft was read, i Home of the idiots of the Kent road i district gave another exhibition u f (Jeir j lack of interest the other evening, when they destroyed the fence at the "<'ightmile peg." The County Council discussed the alleged joke yesterday, and one member suggested that the police should he asked to take a hand. This tickled Cr. Andrews' risible faculties, for lie remembered a little incident arising out of some horse-play at Okato, The church people were the victims there, and they turned the other cheek as lojn* I[s they were able. Then they invoked the aid of the law, and the law, in the shape of a line lump of a policeman, duly repaired into the church to catch the miscreants. He lost them, however, and jhi.s horse lost its tail! No wonder the councillor laughed.